baltimoresun.com - 12/8/2008
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UPDATE: The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, ...
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usatoday.com - 12/8/2008
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usatoday.com —
The court did not comment on its order
Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East
Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American and his Kenyan ...
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Supreme Court won't review Obama's eligibility to serve
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The Moderate Voice —
... The Supreme Court will not hear the complaints of those claiming that President-elect Barack Obama isn’t a “natural born” US citizen, as the Constitution requires our president to be. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after the state was admitted into the Union. ...
Supreme Court dumps Obama birth certificate challenge (also McCain's)
Top of the Ticket —
... The Court's dismissal means that the minimum four justices did not deem it worthy of an actual hearing. Another suit by Philip Berg of Pennsylvania remains at the Court, arguing that not only is the Hawaiian certificate fake but that becaused Obama attended Indonesian schools that required local citizenship, he is also Indonesian. ...
Ticket Replay: Supreme Court refuses to debate Obama citizenship
Top of the Ticket —
... The court's dismissal means that the minimum four justices did not deem it worthy of an actual hearing. Another suit by Philip Berg of Pennsylvania remains at the court, arguing that not only is the Hawaiian certificate fake but that because Obama attended Indonesian schools that required local citizenship, he is also Indonesian. ...
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Barack Obama, who are you wearing? —
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